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cwydro

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12. Many jocks without rich parents get away with it too.

Reply to malaise (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 24, 2018, 07:22 PM

Sep 2018

Look at any top football schools, and oh yes, the many criminals who have played, and are playing even now in the NFL and NBA.

Interestingly, most of those crimes are crimes of violence against women also.

Different rules for not only the rich, but top (male) athletes as well.

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What Kavanaugh and Judge did at Georgetown Prep is not unique to elite prep schools [View all] NewJeffCT Sep 2018 OP

Male supremacy affects us all, everywhere. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2018 #1

Any town USA blm Sep 2018 #2

Yes NewJeffCT Sep 2018 #3

USA? malaise Sep 2018 #4

Sometimes, yes NewJeffCT Sep 2018 #5

True n/t malaise Sep 2018 #6

Many jocks without rich parents get away with it too. cwydro Sep 2018 #12

Absolutely malaise Sep 2018 #14

Elite scumbags EricMaundry Sep 2018 #7

it's not just the elites NewJeffCT Sep 2018 #8

Agree Johnny2X2X Sep 2018 #9

Getting girls drunk and abusing them sounds like a lot of college fraternities. milestogo Sep 2018 #10

and that's why frats are going the way of the dinosaur NewJeffCT Sep 2018 #11

I think that is as much because of the young men who have died milestogo Sep 2018 #13

Kavanaugh and his buddy Judge remind me of the two shitheads from "Scent of a Woman". dem4decades Sep 2018 #15

You point out an uncomfortable truth customerserviceguy Sep 2018 #16

That is also true NewJeffCT Sep 2018 #18

I don't think customerserviceguy Sep 2018 #22

It's an educational muddle bucolic_frolic Sep 2018 #17

Yep. The name "Owen Labrie" should sound familiar to most here. GoCubsGo Sep 2018 #19

I didn't say that it didn't go on at elite prep schools NewJeffCT Sep 2018 #20

What is different about the elite prep schools is that their graduates will go on to become Nitram Sep 2018 #21